The Ocarina created by The Smule is a wind instrument designed for the iPhone, Which uses a wide array of technologies: microphone input (for breath input), multitouch (for fingering), accelerometer, real-time sound synthesis, high- performance graphics, GPS/location, and persistent data connection. In this mobile musical artifact, the interactions of the ancient flute-like instrument are both preserved and transformed via breath-control and multitouch finger-holes, while the onboard global positioning and persistent data connection provide the opportunity to create a new social experience, allowing the users of Ocarina to listen to one another. In this way, Ocarina is also a type of social instrument that enables a different, perhaps even magical, sense of global connectivity.
Smule: Ocarina 2008
Jeff Smith the creator of Ocarina is intensely investigating a notion of “interactive sonic media”
Ocarina now has more than one million users worldwide.
Ocarina: Website
http://ocarina.smule.com/Smule: Website
http://smule-web.s3.amazonaws.com/ocarina/ocarina-nime2009.pdfOcarina: Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhCJq7EAJJADesigning Ocarina:
http://smule-web.s3.amazonaws.com/ocarina/ocarina-nime2009.pdf
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